Headline

Engineering Leader | Ex. Microsoft | Ex. Ola | Software Development, Management

About

Engineering leader with a passion for building teams that create exceptional products. With over 15 years of experience in designing, planning, and scaling web applications, I am experienced in maintaining collaborative environments and driving lean implementations. I am a pro-supporter for A/B testing and iterative development. in Decimal: Leading engineering for a business-critical, AI-assisted lending platform, with a strong focus on lean delivery, predictable execution, and high-ownership teams. Actively partnering with product and business leaders to improve decision quality, platform adoption, and client outcomes, while building a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence. Neoble Experience: As Vice President of Engineering at Neoble, as it’s a startup, I am hands on to end-to-end product development lifecycle, coding and strategic product brainstorming to build it from scratch, while working on core product to support loan against mutual funds and manage their fund collections, I also contributed to SEO and marketing strategies that enhance our digital presence. In JustAnswer: Growth towards customer acquisition by experimenting on various features and improved conversion. Led teams for customer acquisition as planning, designing, executing and delivering projects to grow conversion and improvement on traffic by providing better customer experience. Successfully managed teams, driving appraisals, personal growth, and achieving success for each team member. My team’s attrition ratio was 0% for 2 years. Organized Hackathon, Tech talks, Employee engagement policies and ran mentorship programs to ensure growth and skills in engineering. Maintained cost saving in terms of project delivery and have won several awards for lean execution. Built teams by hiring across different engineering positions in JustAnswer. In Microsoft: Lead in Microsoft Teams for admin portal, led wiki and analytics teams features. Worked to build a resilient system and optimized design with cost saving. In Ola Cabs: Worked on various cab booking features to provide customers with a better application experience. Led teams to build fully automated fleet systems to improve cab partner's experience. Learnt lean here.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

hugging face

langchain

notion

openai

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Decimal Technologies, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Leading engineering for a business-critical, AI-assisted lending platform, with a strong focus on lean delivery, predictable execution, and high-ownership teams. Actively partnering with product and business leaders to improve decision quality, platform adoption, and client outcomes, while building a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

Vice President of Engineering at Neoble, Jan 2024 - Oct 2024 · 10 mos, Remote, As Vice President of Engineering at Neoble, as it’s a startup, I lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle, combining hands-on coding with strategic product brainstorming. I played a pivotal role in shaping key product features from scratch, while also contributing to SEO and marketing strategies that enhance our digital presence. My approach integrates technical expertise with a deep understanding of customer needs, ensuring that Neoble delivers innovative and reliable fintech solutions.

Engineering Leader (India) at JustAnswer, Oct 2020 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Managing teams, overseeing review cycles, conducting performance appraisals, and providing mentorships. Leading teams in customer acquisition with project planning, system designing and prompt delivery to boost conversion and optimize website traffic while providing an enhanced customer experience. Convening Hackathons, Tech talks, instituting Employee engagement policies, executing company promotions in India, and running mentorship programs to foster growth and engineering competency. Achieving cost-savings in project delivery, winning numerous awards for efficient execution, and attaining a 25% growth in traffic to ~500k page visits per day and 6% rise in user conversion in organic search. Recruiting across various engineering roles to construct teams in JustAnswer.

Senior Engineer at Microsoft, Mar 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Guided teams to develop robust and efficient services. Enforced policies, activities and enhanced customer and staff user experience. Formulated applications and treated data in accordance with GDPR and PII. Constructed scalable microservices and APIs capable of handling >700k requests daily with p99 latency of < 0.5s. Refined SQL queries to decrease costs and deliver better responses. Collaborated across teams to refine procedures and introduce better features. Worked on Microsoft Azure applications for infrastructure development and optimization. Developed Wiki feature in Teams application (displayed as a tab in channels). Spearheaded the Development of Analytics feature in Teams application (found in team/channel settings tab).

Technical Lead at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd), Jul 2015 - Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Implemented various cab booking features to maximize customer satisfaction with the application. Guided teams in developing a fully automated fleet system to optimize the cab partner experience. Acquired expertise in lean methodology to expedite delivery times. Spearheaded multiple projects encompassing Ola Share, Shuttle, Corporate, Cafe, and Fleet, developing robust, scalable solutions from start to finish. Constructed a system with microservices, efficient databases, and reliable messaging services (Kafka), capable of withstanding peak demand. Developed cross-platform backend and frontend applications to ensure optimal architecture.

Education

Certificate Program in Management of Software Development, Management in Software Development, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi